On 02/09 09:25 , James Guthrie wrote:
> So, in desperation I ask you what it is that I'm missing. It appears to me as 
> though I've covered all of the bases in the docs and now have nothing I could 
> further investigate without some input from those who know. It would also be 
> interesting (for debug purposes) to know how to force backuppc to ping, so I 
> don't have to wait an hour every time to tell whether the conf setting I 
> changed had an effect or not.

have you done:
su - backuppc
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v hostname.domain.tld

that command will run the backup by hand so you can see what goes on.

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